Solitude
Solitude should
be cultivated, bodily solitude as well as mental solitude. Bodily solitude means to be alone. I don’t mean to say that we should avoid
meeting with people. Rather I mean we
should spend time by ourselves. Mental
solitude men are not thinking about anything about being alert and aware. Some people believe that when we are not
thinking about anything, then we must be deeply asleep, or dull and sleepy. People don’t understand the importance of
solitude. They want to be with somebody
who can give them some fun or stimulate the somehow. Craving for stimulation. When there is nothing to stimulate them they become
bored. Even when they are alone bodily,
they read or with TV, listen to the radio or cassette, or they think about
things they’ve done or about the things they will do. Being alone not reading or watching TV,
listening to the radio or cassette, and not thinking are things never thought
of as productive.
Wisdom is
the fruit of solitude.
Solitude is recharging.
Life flowing
out of deep stillness of my heart
underfinable
Everything
else is incident.
Sayadaw U
Jotika.
